Exploiting lexical and semantic relationships in large unstructured text collections can significantly enhance managing, integrating, and querying information locked in unstructur...
Planar point location is among the most fundamental search problems in computational geometry. Although this problem has been heavily studied from the perspective of worst-case que...
Sunil Arya, Siu-Wing Cheng, David M. Mount, Ramesh...
In the interest of establishing robust benchmarks for search efficiency, we conducted a series of tests on symbolic databases of musical incipits and themes taken from several di...
Craig Stuart Sapp, Yi-Wen Liu, Eleanor Selfridge-F...
Scene text images feature an abundance of font style variety but a dearth of data in any given query. Recognition methods must be robust to this variety or adapt to the query data...
We assess a family of ranking mechanisms for search engines based on linkage analysis using a carefully engineered subset of the World Wide Web, WT10g (Bailey, Craswell and Hawking...